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Piracy isn't a "movement" it's a means to an end.
To consider it anything more that "get shit for free or delisted/abandoned" is cringe.
It does feel like a lot of people trying to justify their piracy are just looking for excuses for something that they personally feel is wrong, but they want to do anyway… but I do think that free access to data and information is something that people can legitimately care about. Libraries are a good socially acceptable example of this (and they definitely fall under the “get shit for free” movement!), and it’s not entirely crazy or cringe for people to want more libraries in life and fewer walled gardens.
Give me an opportunity to pay to access the content easily for a reasonable price. It’s all I ask.
I used to have a huge pirated music collection, and now I have no pirated music at all because it became convenient and reasonably priced to listen to the music I want the way I want to listen to it.
For quite awhile I had no pirated TV or Movies because the content I wanted to watch was available on Netflix and HBO Go. Now I have a lot of content pirated because I’m not going to pay $10-$25 monthly to pay for a streaming service for every show I want to watch. And another $10-$25 monthly for every show my kids want to watch.
To be clear, I am not claiming any moral high ground. That shit is out there for free and unless these companies can find a way back to reasonably-priced streaming I am going to continue taking it because I have a limited budget and TV/Movies are only worth a certain amount of money to me.
Absolutely! It’s also frustrating that you can’t just buy a digital copy of a movie or something for a relatively cheap price? I just want the digital equivalent of bargain bin DVDs and libraries. I don’t want to pay $20/mo to not own anything?